HOUSTON, May 18-- Alaska subsidiaries of Phillips Petroleum Co. and BP PLC Friday announced a discovery estimated to contain 35 million bbl of recoverable reserves and extending Kuparuk oil field on ...

'The Nuna project is the 49th drillsite developed within the KRU and is the first drillsite developed in the Greater Kuparuk Area in nearly a decade'. Image by MattGush via iStock ConocoPhillips has ...

In two separate but similar projects, ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. has sanctioned a new drill site and is permitting an appraisal well at opposite ends of the Kuparuk River unit. The Houston-based ...

Dec. 26—An oil company in Alaska has begun producing oil from a new drill site on the North Slope. ConocoPhillips said last week that it had launched production at its Nuna project. Nuna is expected ...

HOUSTON, Dec. 18-- ConocoPhillips subsidiary ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. and BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. have started production sooner than expected from Drill Site 3S (the Palm exploration wells) in ...

The first new drill site at Kuparuk in more than a decade, the US$475 million DS2S project began producing in October, two months ahead of its original December start date. At its peak, DS2S is ...

Supermajor ConocoPhillips experienced a pipeline leak on 25 December at its Kuparuk oilfield on Alaska's North Slope, resulting in one of the largest produced water spills in the region, the Alaska ...

In a deal announced today, ConocoPhillips said it will take over BP’s 39.2 percent interest in the Greater Kuparuk Area. The deal will “continue our strategy of coring up our legacy asset base in ...

ALPINE OIL FIELD -- Alaska's North Slope on the oil fields of Alpine and Kuparuk is a moonscape during winter. The flat, sparse landscape blends into the sky, both the same white-blue color under a ...

A unit at the edge of ConocoPhillips’ Kuparuk oil field, on Alaska’s North Slope. (Rachel Waldholz/Alaska Public Media) Next year’s budget hasn’t been approved yet, but ConocoPhillips Alaska is ...